Christopher Moore's History News

I've been greatly enjoying The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple.  Most of the buzz that led me...

Canada's History for Spring 2026 is now going out to subscribers.  The cover is a terrific image by Alberta artist Fred Curatolo illust...

Have I ever mentioned I'm an immigrant? I was not yet four years old when I arrived in Canada, and have no clear memory of the country I...

Previously  posted on this site in 2018 , but some things never get old. This is newspaperman and statesman of confederation George Brown on...

The American historian Erik Loomis, a key contributor to the long-lived blog Lawyers, Guns and Money , has an equally long-running series th...

I sometimes forget to go back to The British Columbia Review  (see the link at right), but when I return, it does not just feed my westcoast...

One of the brilliant things about the Canadian constitution is how it structured the administration of justice.   The (deeply flawed) Americ...

My local CBC outlet has a story about First Baptist Church in Toronto, a church founded in 1826 by Black Americans escaping bondage in the ...

Gotta love this:  Prime Minister Carney's recent talk at the Quebec Citadel on the Plains of Abraham has launched a high-level discussio...

Richard Stursberg’s Lament for a Literature The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing  hit me with a shock of recognition. I’m not in it, but...

Maybe this is what the Carney government really thinks about the importance of historical and cultural matters in our current situation. The...

From the media, I got the impression that Prime Minister Carney made a faux pas when he gave a speech about Canadian solidarity on the Plain...

  “We’ve never needed them [NATO] … They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan … and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off...

  Here's a strange one. The National Trust of Canada reports that Parks Canada will shut down the Canadian Register of Historic Places, ...